Marriage and Family Symposium

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Getting you in the mood and
thanks again for joining me on

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this edition of the Rancher
Radio Podcast where we talk

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about the book and some of the
exciting things that are going

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on in the rancher community.
And in just a second, we're

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going to be joined by Joanne
Strobel.

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And it's a rare and I would even
say an exclusive interview

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because it's hard to get her to,
you know, hop on the microphone.

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But we made it happen.
And it's a very important event

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that the Urantia Foundation is
putting on.

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The Urantia Foundation Education
Committee is presenting a Family

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Marriage and family session
symposium, and it's going to be

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about marriage and family life.
And from that there will be a

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number of presentators that will
be talking about different

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aspects of the marriage and
family relationship, how they

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intertwine, what it means for
civilization, and of course,

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what the the authors of the
Urantia book want us to know

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about the importance of family.
So it's going to be both

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educational and I believe very,
very informative.

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So with that, Joanne Strobel
joining me now here on the

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Urantia Radio Podcast.
Joanne Strobel is with us.

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She's with the multiple
associations that are involved

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in Urantia symposiums events.
And there's a very special event

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coming up, the marriage and
family adventure and online

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symposium that is scheduled for
June 14th and June 15th, which

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is right around the corner,
literally.

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And I thought we'd have Joanne
on to just talk briefly about

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what to expect, what's the
purpose of it?

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And for those who may not be
familiar with the Urantia book,

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the Urantia book is very, very
emphatic on the importance of

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family and civilization.
They dedicate multiple chapters

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to this.
The family ideal family is

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represented and the Trinity as
well as with Christ, Michael and

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the divine mother.
And so we here on Earth, we we

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are fighting hard, really,
Joanne, to keep the family

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intact in the Western
civilization.

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It's, it's it's facing a lot of
different ideological struggles

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and cultural struggles and
ethnic struggles and gender

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struggles and all these
struggles.

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So welcome just for briefly and
tell us about this event that's

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coming up and why people might
want to be involved.

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Well, thank you, Jim.
I'm in the throes of putting the

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final touches on it right now,
so you've caught me at a good

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time.
You know, about a year ago,

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several of the trustees talked
about this very topic, the

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importance of family and the
need to get the Rancho book out

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there to support families and,
you know, help encourage that.

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You know what the book says.
Civilization has to be retaught

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with every generation.
And anyway, there was talk about

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having classes and because in
the past I'd been involved with

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several symposiums, educational
symposiums with Urantia

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Foundation, and by that I mean
helping organize them.

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I was never a speaker, but I'm a
good organizer.

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So, you know, for instance, we
did the science symposiums,

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three of them where people who
are experts in a particular

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field would come and they would
share their knowledge and

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corroborate with what is in the
book.

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So I, I thought, you know, we
should have a, we should have a

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family symposium.
I think that would be a great

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idea.
So the education committee

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approved of that and we started
planning it and, you know, sort

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of put the word out to board
members and people that we were

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familiar with through the
foundation that that might be

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interested.
We we did put the word out to

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the general public and, you
know, I don't think everybody

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always sees these announcements,
but anyway, we managed to get 9

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presenters lined up and they're
gonna be speaking on various

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topics within the book.
We also have some wonderful M

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CS.
I don't know if you know Bill

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and Cher Beasley.
Yeah, yeah.

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So the yes, so Sharon Bill will
be our MCS and of course, they

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have a lot of experience getting
workshops and retreats and they

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have raised family and and
grandchildren, you know,

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children and grandchildren.
So and they're a lot of fun.

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So they were, they said yes.
And we've been working together

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on this.
So, you know, we've got a nice

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array of topics.
You know, we're going to start

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with life on a neighboring
planet and, and just sort of

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take it from there.
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And.
Yeah, for those who don't know,

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there's, there's a lot of,
there's a section in the

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arranged book that that gives
detailed information about a

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society similar to our own on
another world.

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And in one of the sections they
talk about the family life and

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the home life.
And it's very different from the

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way with the we view things,
some similarities, but there's a

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lot that we can gleam from that
narrative.

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So that's exciting.
Yeah, So for the readers, go, go

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read Paper 72 and and and then
be prepared for Olga, Olga

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Lopez, who is a trustee who
lives in in the Barcelona, Spain

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area.
She's gonna talk about that.

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And then we've got Joyce and
David Anderson, who have been

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involved with the Urantia Book
for years.

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And they, they just gave a great
talk at the Urantia Association

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International Conference at the
end of March.

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So we invited them and they,
they, they wanted to talk about

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marriage, marriage, what a
partnership.

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And they've had years of
experience and, and their

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parents, Ralph and Betty Zeer,
who I've worked with for years

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through Urantia Book
International School, you know,

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they both of their children are
readers.

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So I'm always in awe of people
who, who, who raised their

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children to read the book
because I, I certainly did not.

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I tried.
But yeah, it's.

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Like, no, nobody was.
What are you gonna do, you know?

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Yeah, so they'll be speaking on
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It it starts on Friday, goes all
day Friday and all day Saturday.

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And in between the the talks,
they're not gonna be real long.

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They're gonna be about 30
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But after each talk, there will
be a panel discussion and we

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will field some questions from
the audience, as many as we can.

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And the panel will, you know,
discuss and respond to those

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questions.
So it should be fun.

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And then after marriage comes
religious education for the

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entire family.
Now that's Alice Wood and her

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mother, Vicki Arkans.
Here's an example of a of a

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second generation reader.
Alice was brought up by Vicki

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and Bob Arkins and Alice is a
reader.

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She married Chris Wood, who's a
trustee.

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He's a reader, also a second
generation reader.

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So we're, we're starting to get
a feel for that, this whole

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family aspect, which I think is
great.

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So then after lunch, we're gonna
have a a therapist, Stevie

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Schaefer.
I don't know if you know Stevie.

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She's done a lot of speaking in
Florida and elsewhere.

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And and she is a licensed
marriage and child and family

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counselor in private practice.
And she also works for school

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districts.
So she's gonna talk about the

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challenge of family conflicts.
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And who doesn't have those, Jim?
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Right.
I know, that's all I see now,

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right?
Imagine.

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Raising kids in today's world,
how how challenging it would be.

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Not not, yeah.
I mean, it's a far different

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world in the 1980s and 90s and,
and in the 70s and the 60s, you

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know, so.
I have literally said those

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words.
I'm glad I'm not.

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Yeah, a newlywed raising
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Now I I truly AM.
So anyway, after Stevie will

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come Brad Garner, who works for
the foundation as well.

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He is our digital programs
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And his wife, Ruthie Wildwanger,
I don't know if you know her.

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She's she plays the cello.
She's kind of well known.

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Yeah.
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reader.
Her parents, the Wingers, were

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readers.
And Brad is a second generation

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reader, his mother, they live in
Arizona and his mother is a

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reader, so.
And they got married.

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So they're going to talk about
the high ideal of marriage for

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lonely creatures so that they'll
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that.
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And.
And that's about it for Friday.

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And then on Saturday, we're
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Jameson.
You know, Guard.

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You got him before.
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So Guard's going to Oh yes, yes.
So Guard is gonna speak about

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the Trinity as the original
family pattern, which I think

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will be very interesting.
And after Guard will come Marvin

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Darin.
And Marvin, you know, is a, a

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therapist, a family therapist.
And he's gonna be talking about

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uplifting global culture with
the family of God symbolism.

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And yeah, that's it.
Now, Marvin's traveling right

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now.
He'll be coming to us live from

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Italy.
And we're just praying that he

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is able to connect to the
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Not that they don't have the
Internet there, but one never

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knows.
One never knows, right?

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So then after lunch, we'll have
two people that I'm sure you

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know, Angie Thurston and her
father, Chuck Thurston.

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Great.
People, I've never met him, but

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you hear so much about these
people and what they're doing

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and great.
I read stuff from Chuck all the

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time.
Chuck and Derek are always

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putting together great videos at
your ranch of films and just a

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wonderful group of people.
And Angie, of course, MIT,

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Boston, smart person, does a lot
of stuff with the community

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there up there.
And one day we'll meet.

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But what a great group of
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I know.
So now we've got a, a father

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daughter team and you know,
again, Angie's second generation

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reader because Chuck and his
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they, they were readers and
raised Angie and her, I think

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she has two siblings, which I
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But anyway, she, she is married
and has a, a three-year old son

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now.
So they're gonna talk about

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encouraging spiritual curiosity
in children.

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You know how?
How do you do that?

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That's a good one, Raise.
A child.

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Isn't that a good one?
Yeah, yeah.

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And there's no cost to any of
this, right?

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I mean, people can just how
would they?

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Get information on Well, we've
already sent out an e-mail blast

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about it from your Rancher
Foundation, and I'm getting

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ready to send another one on
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Friday will contain the link and
it's gonna be on a platform

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called Zoom Sessions, which is,
it's a little bit more than just

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regular old Zoom, which
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Zoom Sessions is, is webinar
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So you, for instance, will be in
the audience, You'll click the

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link, you'll go into the lobby,
and then you'll see all the

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different sessions and, and when
they start, you're able to join

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them and you will be in the
audience and you will not be

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seen on the camera.
So there's, you know, privacy.

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But you can submit questions
through the chat box and I will

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be fielding questions behind the
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Yeah.
And then after each, as I

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mentioned, after each
presentation, there'll be a

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panel discussion.
So Brad will be in the

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background working the Zoom
sessions technology and then he

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can promote people onto the
stage to take part in the panel

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discussion.
And that'll last for another 45

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minutes.
So each section is is 90 minutes

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total.
OK, followed by a little break.

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Yeah.
Now the big question is, for

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people who may not be able to
attend or can't watch all of it,

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will there be a place that we
can watch later if we want to

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enjoy it at our leisure?
Absolutely.

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We will post all of the, the
Foundation's YouTube channel,

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OK.
And, and so Brad, he'll get in

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there and clean them up a little
bit and, and hit, they'll all be

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available just as our like if
you were to go in there right

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now, see all the science
symposium videos and, and you

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could just, you know, someday
you just have a couple hours,

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you could sit down and watch
those just as we can watch your,

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the spotlight that you did for
Ubi.

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Yeah, right, Right.
It's still there.

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Yeah.
They're all in there,

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absolutely.
It'll be here for you.

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Will always be young.
You know, about 50 years ago I

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did a voice over for a museum on
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So I brag about it incessantly.
Hey, if you're ever in Santa

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Barbara, go to the Natural
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me. 20 I I think I made 15 bucks
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I should have asked for
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You know, I think we all do have
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I think you told me once nobody
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and be known throughout
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that include the voice?
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think that there that's a
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as unique as your personality.
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And I was in a restaurant one
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was leaving, I heard a voice
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that voice anywhere.
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a woman who was my best friend
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I hadn't seen her for probably
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Yeah, you.
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So yeah, there must be truth to
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All right, so again,
information, you could probably

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go to the Urantia book or
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and, and figure out how to watch
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And if you want to participate,
you can go to and maybe they can

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even e-mail you if they have any
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Do you want to give?
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If you have a question, yeah,
I'm just Joanne, Joanne,

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joanne@urantia.org.
I'd be happy to answer

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questions.
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about the the final
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be very fun.
Chris Wood, who is a trustee.

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Chris was raised by Mike Wood,
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went to Chicago to your rancher
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Mike raised six boys as a single
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And they're all readers, if you
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And how long was he earlier?
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to the late 70s, I think.
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So they're doing, they're doing
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2:45 Central Town, Central Time,
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the Wood family and Urancha.
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'cause they're all, they're just
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on Saturday, there will be a
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the audience will become
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Everybody can see each other
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the wrap up session.
Not sure what it's going to look

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like.
I'm inviting people to, if you

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want to post a picture of
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kid or, or a young father or a
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post that as your Zoom picture,
I think that would be really fun

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just to share those memories.
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end of it.
But then, as you said, they will

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be available to watch.
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you're not a Urantia book
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the kernel of knowledge about
family and you know, these

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papers were written by
personalities who know a thing

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or two about how families evolve
on different worlds and things

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to look forward.
They're giving us help and we

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need help.
We need a lot of help right now.

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There's divine intervention is
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Urantia book in many, many ways.
So Joanne, you're very humble

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and you do a lot for this
organization and you've been a

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part of the Urantia World
community for many, many

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decades.
And I just personally want to

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thank you on behalf of myself
for just always being there when

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I need something.
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probably feel the same way.
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Oh.
Well, thank you.

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I appreciate that.
And with that, we bid a

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farewell.
Again, thank you to Joanne for

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joining us and thank you for
taking time out to listen to

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this podcast and all of our
podcast that are archived for

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you to listen to.
And you can learn different

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angles and aspects of the 5th
epical Revelation and why it's

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so important to me and to the
global community of Urancha Book

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readers.
If you have a question or a

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comment, please feel free to
e-mail me

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uranchabookradio@gmail.com,
uranchabookradio@gmail.com and

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see you next time.
God bless the.